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by Erin Kissane W hen I was five, my grandfather kept a stash of 3 Musketeers bars on top of his fridge. Not just a handful, but an actual display box like the ones in the check-out aisle at the grocery. He bought them because they were my favorites; they lived on the fridge because they were contraband. I wasn’t supposed to have sugar. Honey and blackstrap molasses from a co-op grocery that smelled like carob-flavored mummy, sure, but not the refined stuff then subject to a hippie-driven moral panic. … Read the rest here

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In Praise of Quitting Your Job : Ben Pieratt, in an email advising a friend: The reason I

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Ben Barry: Art Direction for the f8 Conference : This is some really outstanding design work that covers multiple mediums. Love the graph aesthetics, custom glass tables, and badges that hang at an angle, also doubling as conference guides. … Read the rest here

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by Frank Chimero T he year before was a complete disappointment for all of us. A timely newsletter from the school reminded parents of the dangers of a diet too high in sugar, and that killed our joy. Worse yet: there were suggestions. “Instead of a Rice Krispy treat, why not a rice cake? Rather than a candy bar, maybe try an apple! If you’re thinking about Twizzlers, why not a pencil?” If you wish to see a maniacally enraged, completely unhinged seven-year-old, ask him to dress up, promise him candy, have him come to your door step, and then give him school supplies. … Read the rest here

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Twitter for iPad : Finally, an iPad Twitter app I can use without cursing the UI. If it detects a reply, it will show the conversation from the individuals included ( screenshot ). If it detects a URL, it displays the web page ( screenshot ). … Read the rest here

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jQuery Retina Display Plugin : Troy Mcilvena: The jQuery Retina Display plugin will substitute high resolution versions of your images (if they exist) for high resolution displays (such as iPhone 4) only. This plugins requires no client-side changes, other than the inclusion and initialisation of this plugin. If the 2x image doesn

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iPhone 4 GUI PSD (Retina Display) : Not sure how I missed this news (dated August 12). This is the Retina Display-ready update to the original iPhone GUI PSD by Teehan+Lax. The task was no small effort: It wasn

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Display Caps Lock Warning in Most Browsers : A script that adds WebKit-like notification inside the password field when the caps lock is enabled, in a progressive-enhancement kind of way. It

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This beautiful Apple Airport Basestation was my 30th birthday present from my wife, quite possibly one of the best presents I’ve ever had. The gift of wireless. In those days it was 1mb broadband, but it was still exciting being able to work from anywhere in the house. These days it’s been overtaken by N wireless devices, but it’s such a design classic that it has to be on display. It’s new home is the windowsill next to my desk at Webble Mill. … Read the rest here

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If you upgraded Thunderbird and discovered that the fonts used to display messages suddenly changed, and worse still, you were unable to get all messages to obey your font display settings, then this post is most likely for you. Here’s what happened to me: I upgraded to Thunderbird 3.1, and suddenly all my messages were in a font I didn’t recognize or appreciate. I insist on seeing only the plain text version (technically, the text/plain part) of all my e-mail; and what’s more, that it be displayed in a monospace font. Courier 13, in my case. So I made sure “View > Message Body As” was still set to “Plain Text”, which it was… Read the rest here

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Two sizes of dive slates, as displayed in my shower. I

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How to Make Web Content Look Stunning on iPhone 4

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Type Hinting : Peter Bi?ak: I have been designing type since the early 1990s, and for as long as I can remember, type designers have been saying that hinting would soon be made obsolete by new advances in hardware and software. Now, almost 20 years later, hinting seems to be more relevant than ever. According to Peter, hinting

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In Chrome 5, Safari 4, Opera 10.53 and sometimes Firefox (although I was unable to reproduce it in this test case), changing the visibility of the element by toggling display:none will cause the scroll offset to reset to zero. Toggling visibility:hidden does not seem to trigger the same problem. Scroll the container and then toggle the classes applied. Class applied: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. … Read the rest here

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Fontdeck : Another web font embedding service at your disposal, Fontdeck is now available to the public. In contrast to Typekit , Fontdeck is a piece-meal approach allowing you to select certain fonts and license those fonts annually per website. … Read the rest here

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I remember when I first went freelance, paying for my first software bundle. I had the choice of buying Quark Xpress 5 for a few pounds shy of a thousand (that

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Henge Dock for MacBook : If you use a MacBook or MacBook Pro as your dedicated machine, and if you disconnect it often throughout the day, hooking it up to a display and peripherals can be cumbersome. While Henge Dock may be reminiscent of the bulky PC/laptop docking stations we

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iPad vs. Kindle: An E-Reader Showdown : Joelle Alcaidinho, Unplggd : While we love that the iPad is more than an e-reader, we do not like how difficult it is to read outside, the incredible amount of glare (even indoors, all too often all we could see was our reflection instead of the text), and the weight (one handed reading on the train is a serious no-go). Reading on the iPad also does not provide the same book-like experience as it does on the Kindle. Thanks to the e-Ink display on the Kindle we really are able to forget that we are reading on an electronic device. I don

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This second contest, much like the first , offers you a chance to win an iPad 16GB Wi-Fi (valued at $499 USD). It requires less cash but more effort. Contest #2: Win an iPad 16GB To have a shot at winning, here

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Some days you can tell that @font-face embedding is still trying to find its feet in becoming a stable and viable solution. Chrome 4 and 5 beta currently have a bug that creates some weird behaviour. In the following screenshot, you’ll notice that everything looks a little off . Okay, that’s an understatement. Image courtesy of Pete Lambert Every character is replaced by an A in a box. … Read the rest here